Claremont Avenue Precinct
Claremont Avenue MALVERN, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
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Claremont Avenue Precinct - Physical Description 1
The proposed conservation area is located between the busy urban arteries of Dandenong and Wattletree Roads, the suburban shopping strip of Glenferrie Road to the west and residential Tooronga Road to the east. It is most commonly identified with the detached Federation period villas found in Claremont, Wheatland and Glendearg Streets, although it also includes a portion of smaller Italianate style cottages in streets such as Evandale Road.
As the above history suggests, Gordon Grove and Evandale Road commenced development at an early stage, in the 1880s prior to the crash. These streets are narrow, with shallow footpaths and relatively narrow allotments. Evandale Road in particular is striking in the consistency of its single storey, weatherboard villa character, and remains substantially intact.
The broader streets to the east, Claremont, Glendearg and Wheatland, were the major focus of early Federation period development, although some Victorian period houses also remain. Claremont and Wheatland are consistent in terms of the scale, generous front setbacks and broadly Federation character of their built form, despite a few intrusions such as the flats at the corner of Claremont and Glendearg.
The front gardens, picket fences and nature strips of these Federation streets provide an open, verdant landscape character augmented by deciduous street trees. Access to sites by vehicle has traditionally been achieved from rear laneways, with the result that many frontages remain free of crossovers, driveways and garages, and this contributes to the significance of the area.
Further to the south east, in Hunter, Finlayson and Ewart Streets, the housing stock is less grand, often of timber, and appears to date from a slightly later era, expressive of the gradual eastern spread of development in the early decades of the twentieth century. In fact, these street can be seen to have served as somewhat of a 'fill' between the earlier development to their west and the Gascoigne and Waverley Estates to their east, the latter of which had developed at the very beginning of the century due to access to Caulfield Railway Station. They nonetheless appear to have been substantially or fully developed prior to the advent of the bungalow and villa styles typical of builders' speculative housing in the 1920s and the interwar period generally, although a few buildings of the latter period are to be found in Tooronga Road.
Claremont Avenue Precinct - Local Historical Themes
8.2.2 'Country in the city' - suburban development in Malvern before 1920
3.3.3 Speculation and land boomers - subdivision from 1880s onwards
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - City of Stonnington Heritage Overlay Report (Stages 1-5) 1998
Author: Bryce Raworth P/L
Year: 1998
Grading: VariousStonnington - City of Malvern Heritage Study
Author: Nigel Lewis and Richard Aitken P/L
Year: 1992
Grading: Various
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MYOORAVictorian Heritage Register H0490
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MALVERN RAILWAY STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1575
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2586Victorian Heritage Register H1710
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